When I was reading these two books, I had different feelings about each. My Freshman Year I felt was very interesting. It was the fact that she was doing all the things that I just did a week ago that I really liked. When I read, I like to connect with the stories so I was thinking about the way that I would react if there was a fifty year old women living in my hall. When I thought of this, I thought of how strange that would truly be to me. I am not surprised that she was an outcast. I didn’t like reading Ethnography because I felt that it was, frankly, boring. I couldn’t connect with what they were saying and there were many words I wasn’t familiar with. The one thing that I did really pick up on was when they were talking about the languages. The book said that people that couldn’t speak the same language were seen as outcasts. In My Freshman Year, she notices how people use a different lingo than she does and this is part of what makes her an outcast. When it said that students didn’t really wonder why there was a fifty year old freshmen that didn’t surprise me much. I have realized that students don’t care why you are different they just want to stay away from you. I also that it was strange that no one recognized her as a professor at that college. I am excited to keep reading My Freshman Year and see what happens!
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